excellent video I've spent the entire afternoon watching videos about using Clonezilla for cloning a hard drive in linux. This video , by far, was the best. I just subscribed. Thank you
Tip: For those that attach their bootable clonezilla thumb drives to their keyring. Pick Other Modes > Select the USB drive. Clonezilla then loads to local RAM, therefore you can set the backup/restore options, remove the usb drive from the PC, and let clonezilla do its thing if you are in a hurry to get out the door.
Late to the video but after choosing disk to disk option it does not display my local drive , only the USB attached external drive I want to clone to ( destination)?
Can you create a folder on the external disk drive ie. Backup 2019 and have it place the backup in folder? Then when wanting to restore you can from that folder? This allows you to use the rest of external drive for other saved items?
Thank you for the detailed explanation on using Clonezilla. I've tried to use it a while ago, but the interface was a little intimidating. It's supposed to be a really good, and free, drive copy and imaging program.
Hello, please a tip. I have a source HDD that is larger than the target SSD. But I have a large unallocated partition with 3 other small partitions on the source drive. Is it possible to choose and clone a partition and repeat the operation with 2 other partitions so that the target SSD drive is operational and full with 3 small partitions? By choosing the partition-partition cloning menu in beginner mode, this 3 times in a row .... simpler I think disk to disk expert mode. No ? thank you for your opinion
Does restoring an image from a dual boot Ubuntu and Windows 10 computer work flawlessly or are there more steps involved? I have an image but haven’t tested restoring it. I use the grub2 boot loader.
Hi Ricardo, I've not tried with a dual boot system however if doing a full disk clone you get the option to also copy the bootloader, so it should work.
Thanks for the video. Very informative but I have one issue. I cloned a 120GB ssd onto a 1 TB ssd. Installed the new ssd into my laptop and noticed there was unallocated space (about 820GB)
When at the very end, and you said to reboot...I yanked out the usb drive and rebooted. Please give a warning before that we are supposed to leave it. In fact warn that if we aren't comfortable with comand prompt lynux type stuff, that this shouldn't even be done. I should have never used clonezilla, when there are other normal programs. I lost my C drive partition doing this, and it wasn't even the partition I was cloning.
clonezilla is complaining that the destination drive is too small even though it has no partitions on it and is a bit bigger. I also tried creating one big ext4 partition on it and using another drive of the same model but it still gives the error about the drive being too small while it really isn't.
Not sure if you ever got around this problem but I believe I have a solution. If you are absolutely sure that the entire disk's partitions are equal to, or preferably less than the destination you are cloning too, you can use the -icds flag which is an option available when choosing expert mode instead of beginner mode early in the process. Enabling this flag will skip checking the destination disk size before creating partition table. I had the same problem as you where I made the necessary reduction in partition sizes but still had that warning because it was assuming the massive empty, unused area on the storage device was being copied as well. Here is a link that explains the process with visuals: www.ubackup.com/articles/clonezilla-clone-larger-disk-to-smaller-disk-4348.html
@@ToastyWaffle456 Do you know if it makes a difference whether the “unallocated space” from shrinking partitions is at the end or in the middle of the diagram in the disk management tool in win 10? Does clonezilla just ignore it? Or does it also copy the unallocated space on the new drive? Hopefully i made my question clear. Thanks.
@@cicervlvs Off the top of my head I can't say absolutely for sure as that is a unique problem that would likely require testing. If Clonezilla does a literal sector by sector clone-reproduction of the disk it's a possibility it would attempt to replicate an exact layout which might conflict if the source-disk is larger than the destination-disk. If it were me I would go ahead and enable the flag as said above and attempt to clone anyway onto the destination disk you have. The likely worst case scenario is the cloning will fail with a bunch of errors and render the cloned drive's/destination drive's data unusable because it will be corrupted. Once you reformat the drive afterwards it should be ready for another attempt as the drive's storage will once again be fully ready for rewriting because it is cleansed of corrupted data. A possible result of you trying this procedure is that it will clone perfectly fine, and you will just have less unallocated space than before. In the chance it does fail, reformat the destination drive that will have the corrupted data to reset it and then extend the partitions you have on the source-disk to fill the entire drive. After that is done you could try shrinking the partition again to see if the diagram shows the unallocated space now at the "end" of the disk, you can then give Clonezilla another try. I can't give a more concrete answer than this because I don't know enough about the physical hardware to determine that the diagram's representation of unused sectors will actually be copied in whole, or the result will just be less unallocated space on the destination drive since there is no filesystem on unallocated sectors.
@@cicervlvs I am running into the same issue, I followed the directions above using the -icds flag and "resize the partitional table proportionally" however I still run into an error. I am attempting to move the empty space but was wondering what program you used to do this? Thanks
excellent video I've spent the entire afternoon watching videos about using Clonezilla for cloning a hard drive in linux. This video , by far, was the best. I just subscribed. Thank you
Tip: For those that attach their bootable clonezilla thumb drives to their keyring. Pick Other Modes > Select the USB drive. Clonezilla then loads to local RAM, therefore you can set the backup/restore options, remove the usb drive from the PC, and let clonezilla do its thing if you are in a hurry to get out the door.
Late to the video but after choosing disk to disk option it does not display my local drive , only the USB attached external drive I want to clone to ( destination)?
Can you create a folder on the external disk drive ie. Backup 2019 and have it place the backup in folder?
Then when wanting to restore you can from that folder?
This allows you to use the rest of external drive for other saved items?
Thank you for the detailed explanation on using Clonezilla. I've tried to use it a while ago, but the interface was a little intimidating. It's supposed to be a really good, and free, drive copy and imaging program.
This will copy multiple partitions? Like the OS and the recovery separate partitions?
Hello, please a tip. I have a source HDD that is larger than the target SSD. But I have a large unallocated partition with 3 other small partitions on the source drive. Is it possible to choose and clone a partition and repeat the operation with 2 other partitions so that the target SSD drive is operational and full with 3 small partitions? By choosing the partition-partition cloning menu in beginner mode, this 3 times in a row .... simpler I think disk to disk expert mode. No ? thank you for your opinion
Does restoring an image from a dual boot Ubuntu and Windows 10 computer work flawlessly or are there more steps involved? I have an image but haven’t tested restoring it. I use the grub2 boot loader.
Hi Ricardo, I've not tried with a dual boot system however if doing a full disk clone you get the option to also copy the bootloader, so it should work.
@@redrobbosworkshop Thanks. I did not see that option. I used clonezilla-live-20160210-wily-amd64.iso . Maybe it just grabbed the boot loader anyways.
Thanks for the video. Very informative but I have one issue. I cloned a 120GB ssd onto a 1 TB ssd. Installed the new ssd into my laptop and noticed there was unallocated space (about 820GB)
@@Junyar You can use disk manager under windows or gparted under linux to extend the partition. If it fails, you can use partedmagic.
Very informative Rob, thanks for sharing this.
Very nice description of Disk to Disk cloning, but nothing on partition cloning from one disk to another as the title suggests.
When at the very end, and you said to reboot...I yanked out the usb drive and rebooted. Please give a warning before that we are supposed to leave it. In fact warn that if we aren't comfortable with comand prompt lynux type stuff, that this shouldn't even be done. I should have never used clonezilla, when there are other normal programs. I lost my C drive partition doing this, and it wasn't even the partition I was cloning.
Excellent video Rob!! thanks!
Thanks Colin!
I'm just cloning my 1TB M.2 drive (laptop) to 2TB M.2 (USB 3.1 adapter). The process is 100%, but for 4 hours I "watch" - syncing...
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Very nice how to video. Thank you
Cheers Steve.
AWESOME !!!!! thank you !!!!
Great video bud
Thanks Alistair!
clonezilla is complaining that the destination drive is too small even
though it has no partitions on it and is a bit bigger. I also tried
creating one big ext4 partition on it and using another drive of the
same model but it still gives the error about the drive being too small
while it really isn't.
Not sure if you ever got around this problem but I believe I have a solution. If you are absolutely sure that the entire disk's partitions are equal to, or preferably less than the destination you are cloning too, you can use the -icds flag which is an option available when choosing expert mode instead of beginner mode early in the process. Enabling this flag will skip checking the destination disk size before creating partition table. I had the same problem as you where I made the necessary reduction in partition sizes but still had that warning because it was assuming the massive empty, unused area on the storage device was being copied as well. Here is a link that explains the process with visuals:
www.ubackup.com/articles/clonezilla-clone-larger-disk-to-smaller-disk-4348.html
@@ToastyWaffle456 Do you know if it makes a difference whether the “unallocated space” from shrinking partitions is at the end or in the middle of the diagram in the disk management tool in win 10? Does clonezilla just ignore it? Or does it also copy the unallocated space on the new drive? Hopefully i made my question clear. Thanks.
@@cicervlvs Off the top of my head I can't say absolutely for sure as that is a unique problem that would likely require testing. If Clonezilla does a literal sector by sector clone-reproduction of the disk it's a possibility it would attempt to replicate an exact layout which might conflict if the source-disk is larger than the destination-disk.
If it were me I would go ahead and enable the flag as said above and attempt to clone anyway onto the destination disk you have. The likely worst case scenario is the cloning will fail with a bunch of errors and render the cloned drive's/destination drive's data unusable because it will be corrupted. Once you reformat the drive afterwards it should be ready for another attempt as the drive's storage will once again be fully ready for rewriting because it is cleansed of corrupted data.
A possible result of you trying this procedure is that it will clone perfectly fine, and you will just have less unallocated space than before. In the chance it does fail, reformat the destination drive that will have the corrupted data to reset it and then extend the partitions you have on the source-disk to fill the entire drive. After that is done you could try shrinking the partition again to see if the diagram shows the unallocated space now at the "end" of the disk, you can then give Clonezilla another try. I can't give a more concrete answer than this because I don't know enough about the physical hardware to determine that the diagram's representation of unused sectors will actually be copied in whole, or the result will just be less unallocated space on the destination drive since there is no filesystem on unallocated sectors.
@@ToastyWaffle456 Thank you for the detailed answer. I ended up moving the empty space to the right just in case and it worked perfectly.
@@cicervlvs I am running into the same issue, I followed the directions above using the -icds flag and "resize the partitional table proportionally" however I still run into an error. I am attempting to move the empty space but was wondering what program you used to do this? Thanks
says it's super easy, goes over how to download, then says now just make a bootable usb drive and skips how to make the usb drive...
thanks ;)
USELESS! Entire disk clone only!